Week one of the Spring 2017 semester is over. Let me just say that re-entry was tough! Though I never really slept late over the holiday break, I was not up any day at 5:30 like I have been every day this week. This adjustment to my morning alarm would have been much more tolerable if I had made a similar adjustment to my bedtime, if it also had moved three hours earlier. I missed that step. The result? Three…
I made healthy food choices today, which my body greatly appreciated, but it is not at all happy with the “sleep diet” that has been imposed now that I am back in school. Though my mind would like to tackle a few things on my need/want to-do list tonight, the body said, “NOOOOO!!!!” For once, I am paying attention. No mind over matter. Goodnight!
Only sixteen days into the new year and so many good things have already happened! Yes, I have taken a week long hiatus from writing here; though that was not exactly what I had planned, it is a good thing. Last weekend, while on retreat, I felt compelled to write even though I was not supposed to be. And this week, I have been at home with access to my computer, but other things were more important. I returned home…
So many acts are Underappreciated. Little things matter. KEB 1/4/17 Today’s photo prompt was overlook. I could probably write pages here about all of the things that I have overlooked lately, but I have no time for that because I definitely have overlooked the fact until now that we will be out of town this weekend staffing a retreat and I had not packed a thing until 11 pm tonight. So, no time to write. That said, I will be…
Another year behind me…the days seem to pass faster and faster! I need them to slow down. I have so much that I need to do, that I want to do. One thing that I have managed to do every single day since January 1, 2013 is to take a photo a day, a photo that in some way represents my day. Other than brushing my teeth, I’m not sure that I can say that I have any other habit…
Today is my 55th birthday. Exactly ten years ago, on a whim, I decided to start writing a blog. At that point I had no idea why and was fairly sure that no one really wanted to read what I was writing. But, I did it. The title perfectly summed up what I wrote about, all the things that happened in my day. I was faithful to the process for quite awhile. And then I became unfaithful. And then faithful…
Every month, the Capture Your 365 photo prompts include this one – “Where I Stand.” I have pictures of my bare feet, my sock covered feet, my feet in comfy shoes, funky shoes, and dressy shoes. Throughtout these photos I can be seen with my feet curled around the base of my desk chair, propped up on the couch relaxing, standing side by side with the one I love, on rocks and mountains, close to home, and faraway. Each photo…
A week ago today I spent an amazing Saturday with four awesome photography friends, and several supportive family members, on a photowalk at the Norfolk Botanical Gardens. Most of us had never met before that day, yet from the moment that we all gathered at the front entrance to the gardens, it felt like we had been lifelong friends. The excitement with which we all met that day was like a bunch of teenagers at a sleepover. With cameras around…
I just watched a story on the news about former Olympian and six-time gold medalist Amy Van Dyken-Rouen, now paralyzed from the waist down after an ATV accident in 2014, who is upset because a lock Dallas hotel employee referred to her as “a cripple.” Cripple is apparently an offensive term. Interestingly, nowhere in any of the reports that I have read on the incident does she ever say how she prefers to be called. This argument over how one refers…
The proverbial “they” say that we take, not make, time for those things that are truly important to us. I am guilty of saying quite often that I don’t have time for this or that when the reality is that I don’t take the time for those things. Consciously or subconsciously what I am saying with my choices is that those things for which “I don’t have time” are not priorities in my life. When I think about those slighted…